php|architect’s Guide to PHP Security

About the Author
Ilia Alshanetsky is the principal of Advanced Internet Designs Inc., a company that specializes in security auditing, performance analysis and application development.
He is the author of FUDforum (http://fudforum.org), a highly popular, Open Source bulletin board focused on providing the maximum functionality at the highest level of security and performance.
Ilia is also a Core PHP Developer who authored or co-authored a series of extensions, including SHMOP, PDO, SQLite, GD and ncurses. An active member of PHP’s Quality Assurance Team, he is responsible for hundreds of bug fixes, as well as a sizable number of performance tweaks and features.
Ilia is a regular speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide and can often be found teaching the Zend Certification Training and Professional PHP Development courses that he has written for php|architect. He is also a prolific author, with articles for PHP|Architect, International PHP Magazine, Oracle Technology Network, Zend.com and others to his name. Ilia maintains an active blog at http://ilia.ws, filled tips and tricks on how to get the most out of PHP.